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TI-Nspire CX Keypad Layout Start by spending a few seconds looking at the layout of the keypad. First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 5

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents Page 6 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Tutorial 1 TI-Nspire Documents This first tutorial introduces some of the key features of TI-Nspire™ learning technology, in particular the structure of TI-Nspire documents, with differe...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 7 Battery Life The TI-Nspire™ CX handheld comes with a rechargeable battery, which should be charged for at least six hours before first use. The built-in rechargeable battery does not nee...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents Page 8 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology The Home Screen When you switched on a calculator you expected to see what was called the Home Screen and you’d be able to start carrying out calculations right away. But the TI-Nspire h...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 9 What is quite different from the computer is that within one document you can have multiple pages or problems that can make use of the different applications. The spreadsheet on one page...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents Page 10 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Scratchpad Because there are some occasions when you really just want to carry out a quick calculation or draw a quick graph the TI-Nspire includes a feature called the Scratchpad . The...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 11 e is often used to move to and highlight different parts of the screen Name of Document Total number of pages in the problem Number or Name of the Problem If the handheld has been used ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents Page 12 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology If the ‘Getting Started 3_0’ document is present on your handheld, work through it now as far as page 2.5. This will allow you to revise what has been covered so far in this tutorial Sc...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 13 Contextual Menus Return to the Home screen, and select 2: My Docs … to access the document browser. Notice that within the document browser new folders may be created or folders renamed...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents Page 14 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Then open a document in the browser and press b again. It is important to realise that b will always provide access to the features of the current environment. For example, within the N...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 2: The Calculator Application © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 15 NB multiplication and division. What do you expect the result of this calculation to be? Tutorial 2 The Calculator Application At the heart of TI-Nspire is the Calculator applica...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 2: The Calculator Application Page 16 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Notice how entering an operation at the beginning of an expression (the power operation in this example) causes the automatic entry of Ans , standing for the previous answer. A H...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 2: The Calculator Application © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 17 A menu of maths templates Derivative of x 2 +2x-3 at x=5 Integral of x 2 +2x-3 between 1 and 5 Templates Many of the handheld’s keys provide templates to enable you to enter a ra...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 2: The Calculator Application Page 18 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Document settings dialog box With dialog boxes it is important to remember that you need to press e to move through the various options. The effect of changed settings In Approxi...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 2: The Calculator Application © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 19 3 ways to define variables What you type is not necessarily what you get: above πr 2 and 2πr were a ctually typed as. PIrRq 2PIrR Use of function notation Some Algebra The calcul...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 2: The Calculator Application Page 20 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Notice that the expression d1+d2 produces a list of 100 sums of the corresponding values from d1 and d2 i.e. 100 totals when 2 dice are thrown The Calculator Menu Press b and loo...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 2: The Calculator Application © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 21 List of defined variables Variables Linked to Documents Press h and you will see a floating menu showing all the variables that you have defined while using the current document....

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 3: The Notes application Page 22 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Various text formatting Recording results Instructions Tutorial 3 The Notes page This very short tutorial introduces this simple, innovative application and deals with the process of ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 3: The Notes application © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 23 The Format sub-menu Ways to split the screen You must press / e and then b Important: to move from one part of the screen to another you need to press: /e Press b to see the various o...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 3: The Notes application Page 24 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology An inserted comment Use of proof template and symbols Use of Q+A template The MathsBox attributes ( b51 ) allows you to show just the input or output if preferred More Options from th...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 3: The Notes application © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 25 There are a number of different question types which can be used Asking Questions If you also have access to TI-Nspire Teacher Software , then you also have the ability to insert ques...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 3: The Notes application Page 26 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology We then enter the question in the top box and answers in the fields below. To add mathematical content insert a Maths Box. To indicate the correct answer click on the Tick mark. When ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 4: Graphing © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 27 Tutorial 4 Graphing The Graphs and Geometry applications are probably the most visually exciting of the TI-Nspire applications. This tutorial introduces the Graphs application and then concentrate...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 4: Graphing Page 28 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology The open-hand cursor Grabbed tick mark on the axes If you do end up moving the wrong item, remember that /Z or /d can be used to undo the last change. As with a computer / Y can be used to redo. G...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 4: Graphing © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 29 The Zoom settings The grabbed-sheet icon Changing f2 in the function history To hide a function’s graph click on the Hide/Show button ú You have just used a direct method for changing the axes, bu...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 4: Graphing Page 30 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Notice the Trace icon in the top left corner of the work area. This is typical of many of the options from the menus. Trace picks out significant points The current value of the trace is displayed...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 4: Graphing © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 31 Coordinates and labelled points It’s easy to change the number of decimal places displayed: move the cursor over a displayed value and press - or + . Notice that all the intersections are added at...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 4: Graphing Page 32 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Transformed graph and equation Alternative icons Manually Moving Graphs You saw earlier that, when you change a function’s equation the graph changes. An innovative feature of TI-Nspire is that yo...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 4: Graphing © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 33 Next add a second function f4(x)=f3(x-d) by pressing eF3(X-D)· , this function is a transformation of the original function by d . Now grab the handle on the slider and move it left and right and ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 4: Graphing Page 34 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Check list of some key points in Tutorial 4: • Items visible in the graphing view: the work area, the entry line, the function history, the warning icons in the top-left corner • Grabbing and drag...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 35 Drawing the base of the triangle Notice that as usual the relevant icon appears in the top left corner of the screen. Tutorial 5 Geometry This tutorial introduces interactive geometry i...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 5: Geometry Page 36 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology The next step is to draw a line parallel to BC. This is a construction so you need to press bA . Choose option 2: parallel. You must specify two things: the line to which it is to be parallel, and...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 5: Geometry © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 37 Measurement menu Storing the measurement as a variable Notice the range of other possible measurements available from this menu. Making Measurements With a triangle drawn on your screen, the next ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 5: Geometry Page 38 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Ready to grab A and slide it Changing the attributes of the triangle Now move to the top of the screen and enter some text, perhaps giving the user some explanation or instructions. You will need ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 5: Geometry © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 39 Area is now locked This brings up the contextual menu which gives the options available for the option displayed. To change the shading select Colour then Line Colour or Fill Colour which will ope...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 5: Geometry Page 40 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Check list of some key points in Tutorial 5: • Use of the Plane Geometry View rather than the Graphing View• Lines, segments and rays• Constructing parallel lines• Drawing points on objects and la...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 6: Lists & Spreadsheet © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 41 Differences from a spreadsheet? Defining the list in column C Lists can also be defined in the Calculator application Tutorial 6 Lists & Spreadsheet The Lists & Spreadsheet ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 6: Lists & Spreadsheet Page 42 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology One way to enter a formula Conflict resolution Typical Spreadsheet Actions Using Formulae Suppose you wished to investigate the relationship between hand spans and shoe sizes. You m...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 6: Lists & Spreadsheet © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 43 A hand-made function table Capturing data by hand Instead of typing ‘area’ you can also press h , highlight area and then press · . Capturing Data A powerful feature of TI-Nspire is...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 6: Lists & Spreadsheet Page 44 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology A simple function table Graph and table side by side The Function Table view is an alternative for any Lists & Spreadsheet page. You can toggle between the two views using /T . ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 6: Lists & Spreadsheet © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 45 Frequency Charts Often due to the quantity of data it is more useful to work with data in the form of a frequency chart, this can be for either discrete or grouped data (using the m...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 7: One- and two-variable statistics Page 46 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Data entered in Tutorial 6 Choosing a variable Three plots for numerical data Randomly distributed points: no variables have yet been assigned. Tutorial 7 One and Two Varia...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 7: One- and two-variable statistics © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 47 Upper quartile displayed Comparing shoe sizes A Pie Chart displaying categorical data Display the boxplot and then move the cursor over the chart. You will be able to see t...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 7: One- and two-variable statistics Page 48 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Ready to add a 2 nd variable Powerful options in the Analyse menu Translating the line Rotating the line Move towards one end of the line to show the rotate cursor. Click a...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 7: One- and two-variable statistics © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 49 The calculated regression line The Statistics Calculations menu Drawing the Regression Line The line that was fitted by hand and eye can be compared with the calculated lin...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 7: One- and two-variable statistics Page 50 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology It is also possible to arrange side-by-side comparisons of corresponding summary statistics for two or more data sets and this makes drawing inferences from the statistics ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Tutorial 7: One- and two-variable statistics Page 52 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Check list of some key points in Tutorial 7 • Creating one- and two-variable statistical plots in the Data & Statistics application• Plotting categorical as opposed to ...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Appendix: Multiple Representations © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 53 Appendix Multiple Representations The previous seven tutorials have introduced many of the key features of TI-Nspire learning technology, with each of the applications being discusse...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Appendix: Multiple Representations Page 54 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology A Spreadsheet for Data Capture • Open a new Lists & Spreadsheet page. • Type column headings for columns A to D.• Click in the function entry line in column A (grey cell just bel...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Appendix: Multiple Representations © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology Page 55 Go to Town with Data Collection • Return to the Geometry page and drag the circumference in as far as you can. • Review the data in the spreadsheet.• Review the diameter/circumferenc...

First Steps with TI-Nspire ™ Appendix: Multiple Representations Page 56 © 2012 Texas Instruments Education Technology A Different Approach to Scatterplots • Open a new Graphs page. • From the Graph Type menu choose Scatter plot – b34 . • Set x to be radius and y to be area . • From the Window menu c...